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The man accused in the mass shooting at Brown University entered the country under the Diversity Visa Program lottery in 2017 and received a green card, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X.
Noem also said she had instructed US Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the visa program at the direction of President Donald Trump.
“The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Nieves Valente, entered the United States through the Diversity Visa (DV1) program in 2017 and received a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed to enter our country,” Noem asserted in his letter. mail.
She continued: “In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following a devastating truck crash in New York City by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and killed eight people.” “At the direction of President Trump, I am immediately directing USCIS to temporarily pause the DV1 program to ensure that no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.”
Claudio Manuel Nieves-Valiente identified as suspect in shootings at Brown University and MIT, found dead
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem participates in the annual Christmas Tree Ship Arrival Ceremony aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw at Navy Pier on December 6, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Jacek Poczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Claudio Manuel Nieves Valiente, a Portuguese national who was found dead Thursday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to officials, is the suspect in the shootings at Brown University and in the separate killing of an MIT professor.
Valenti has been a student at Brown University for more than two decades, according to school President Christina Paxson.
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“Nieves Valiente was enrolled at Brown as a graduate student from fall 2000 to spring 2001, but had no active affiliation with Brown and had not been affiliated with Brown since 2003. He was not a current student, was not employed, did not hold a degree from the university, and attended for only three semesters as a graduate student until he took a leave of absence in 2001 and officially withdrew effective July 31, 2003,” she noted.
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“Nieves Valiente has been accepted into the Brown Graduate School to study in the Sc.M-PhD program in Physics,” Paxson noted.